>What Dr Manmohan
Singh is suggesting is a constitutional process. ULFA's demand, and
for that matter that of any >insurgency group,
is not based on India's Constitution.
**** The constitution is skewed against Assam's legitimate RIGHTS
and interests. Therefore the whole premise is a meaningless one, as
far as Assam's grievances are concerned.
How for example, can a handful of legislators from Assam, who get
there thru a profoundly faulty, undemocratic and outside special
interest controlled electoral process, safeguard Assam's interest
playing the numbers game in a house of 400 (?); in a system where the
checks and balances of a lower and upper house is merely a
rubber-stamping mechanism lacking any teeth, and where the checks and
balances of constitutional division of powers are non-functional,
leading for example a state to refuse to obey the directive of the SC
on a matter such as riverlinking, and that too with impunity?
Kharkhowas living in the west, in their developed and functional
democracies, spouting praise of democratic system do so, without
being aware of or deliberately ignoring the realities of
desi-demokrasy.
I don't make the charge lightly. One needs only to look at the
arguments that we make in Assam net, or in the many India related
websites, that display the degree of ignorance of democratic
principles, even among the desi elites.
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What Dr Manmohan Singh is suggesting is a constitutional process. ULFA's demand, and for that matter that of any insurgency group, is not based on India's Constitution. It is not democratic either; in fact it need not be democratic. Dr Singh has sworn in to promote, protect and preserve all that is there in the Constitution of India. The architects of the Indian Constitution were aware of the fact that India is a weak union made up of diverse elements -differences in religion, ethnicity, language, culture and so on - and it stressed that all efforts must be directed towards keeping India united. In this I accuse the Government of India of its haphazard efforts or no efforts at all in keeping India united. I also believe that a great disservice was done by the Sixth schedule with which Dr Ambedkar's name is associated. The sixth schedule was meant for a trial period of ten years but the Indian politicians do not have the guts to scrap it.In fact more and more people want to benefit from it. Even Dr Ambedkar was not happy at last. The caste system is so deeply rooted in Indian culture that he advised the dalits to convert to Buddhism. But I personally know that even after becoming converts they continued to benefit from the Sixth Schedule like all other backward people of India, i e the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes.
bhuban
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